Monkey cups would not normally worry Norwegian authorities. The new well is infected emerging in more and more countries and breaking between people.

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The first case of monkey cups in Europe was detected in the UK on 6 May this year. It came from someone who had been to Nigeria.

The typical would be that it disappeared by itself.

That’s not how it turned out. On Monday, the European Infection Control Agency joined a new risk assessment.

And the British reported 36 new cases.

That is more cases than ever. And it is spreading. Denmark is previously the last of a number of western countries who have reported about infection.

The previous major western outbreak was in the United States in 2003. Around 80 people were infected.

But then it turned out that everyone had had contact with the prairie dog kept as pets which in turn was infected by rodents from Ghana. A handful became seriously ill, but none of the infected people died.

The special thing about this year’s outbreak is that it has been discovered in a number of western countries at the same time. And that it has infected a lot between people.

It is severely unusual and the largest outbreak in the West ever.

For possible explanations to stand out:

The virus has mutated to become more contagious. But so far there is little to suggest.

The explanation experts point out is that the virus has ended up in the environment with good conditions for spreading.

An adviser to the World Health Organization says to the news agency AP that they are investigating the possible spread of ravens in Spain and Belgium.

It does not have to have anything to do with sex, but several cases of infection are linked to the environment where men have sex with men. Close contact sexually and socially can give cases, whether the virus is sexually transmitted or not.

Experts also do not rule out that the virus is sexually transmitted. There are several cases where eradicating genital warts has been discovered Science.

European Agency for Communicable Disease Control writes that part of the rash that is set indicates that it comes as a result of intercourse.

One theory is that the virus has spread quietly in the environment where men have sex with men over a long period of time, but the pandemic’s measures have kept the infection so low that it has not been responded to.

There are different ways to strike. If you get the virus through the airways, you get blisters on the hands, face and possibly the rest of the body.

However, if the infection occurs locally, for example via wounds and tears, blisters occur locally, and not necessarily elsewhere on the body.

When experts say that this will not be a new pandemic, it is because it is an old, known virus that the common smallpox vaccine works against.

There is medicine. And it is easy to stop the infection.

The painful diseases which are described as “Very itchy” will hardly be a big page here in Norway.

And had it not been for the covid pandemic, the virus might not have become an equally big case.

In the last month, hundreds of articles have been written about monkey cups.

In comparison, I found only 18 cases in the media archive Atekst about monkey cups since the virus was discovered in 1958 and up to and including April this year.

Presumably it is the aftermath of the pandemic that makes us extra aware of viruses.

People have been intimidated and the health authorities are still on guard, with resources to monitor, test and investigate viruses.

The outbreaks may also have something to do with the fact that many have a lot to take back after the closure, both with travel and with social gatherings.

Some of the first cases that appeared in Europe this time have been sent diagnosed because one first does not think of monkey cups.

That is why information is important.

But most people do not have to worry. It can quickly become too much anxiety and.

An outbreak in Nigeria in 2017 that received a lot of publicity, led to everything from pimples to mosquito bites was suspected to be monkey cups.

If you get a rash, then it is most likely something other than monkey cups you should think about first.

And you can go both to West Africa and to the sauna in Spain. The danger is still vanishingly small.